Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

Women can endure things and keep going because our lives are made up of small practical physical tasks, and no matter how lonely or sad or humiliated you are, you do the dishes, or wash the clothes, and you come to the end of a small task and see a small result.

— Helen GarnerOne Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995.


Notes: Portrait of Helen Garner from The New Daily